1. Ten Cents a Dance
2. Christine Fletcher
3. 1942, Chicago
4. Struggling Economy (World War II)
5. Ruby Jacinski, Paulie Suelze
6. Ruby is forced to drop out of school to get a job and help support her family, but she hates working in a factory.

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Advait Chutke - 2A

1/22/2018 06:48:36 pm

Title: Microserfs

Author: Douglas Coupland

Setting: Paulo Alto, CA - "Silicon Valley" CA - Early and Late 1990's

Evidence of Time Period: Windows 95, Powerbooks, Start of the Web Internet Superhighway

Characters: Dan, Karla, Susan, Ethan, Michael, Bug, Abe, Dusty

Conflict: They want to earn money, decide their jobs, and figure out who they really are inside of their geek selves

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Pranav Pradeep 2A

1/22/2018 07:15:37 pm

1. The Pelican Brief
2. John Grisham
3. New Orleans in the early 1990s
4. Terrorism, cigars, cardigans
5. Darby Shaw, Thomas Callahan, Gray Gratham
6. 2 Supreme Court Justices were assassinated and Darby figured out why they were killed. The people responsible for the murders want Darby dead.

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Saatvik 2A

1/22/2018 09:05:17 pm

1. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
2. Michael Chabon
3. New York City 1939 to mid-1940s
4. Radio is pretty big; Superman comic was recently written, setting off the Golden Age of comics; The Nazi's are persecuting Jews in Europe
5. Josef "Joe" Kavalier and Sammy Klayman
6. The two main characters are trying to survive in New York City while pursuing their passion for illustration and comics.

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Rupin 2B

1/23/2018 02:38:54 pm

1. Burn Baby Burn
2. Meg Medina
3. New York City 1977
4. Son of Sam
5. Nora, Kathleen, Angel, Mr. Mac
6. Son of Sam causing terror in New York City. There are countless murders, and Mr. Mac is still worried about Nora and Kathleen being outside.

1. Journey to the End of the World
2. Henning Mankell
3. Northern Sweden 1950s
4. Teachers hit their students, merchant sailors
5. Joel, Samuel, Jenny
6. Joel might have to give up sailing to meet his mom, who ran away when he was little

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Vivek Reddy 2B

1/23/2018 05:14:53 pm

1. 1984
2. George Orwell
3. London (known as "Airstrip One" in book) 1984
4. Telescreen and Pig Iron
5. Winston, Big Brother, Julia, Emmanuel, Syme, and O'Brien
6.The state is depriving Winston of the right to freedom of speech and privacy.

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Rithi 2A

1/23/2018 07:51:50 pm

1) Shanghai Girls
2) Lisa See
3) Shanghai/U.S. 1937-1957
4) Use of Chinese yuan, some politically incorrect terms
5) Pearl & May Chin
6) External conflict between Pearl and her father, who favors her sister May over her

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Raul Santos

1/24/2018 09:20:56 am

1. Once A Runner
2. John L. Parker Jr.
3. 1970s, Florida
4. Characters based on real life athletes and trainers of the time
5. Quenton Cassidy, Bruce Denton, Jerry Mizner, Dick Doobey, Andrea Cleland
6. Quenton gets kicked off the track team and is barred from competition at the university's annual track meet.
6.

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Jordan 2A

1/24/2018 09:49:06 am

1) Eleanor and Park
2) Rainbow Rowell
3) 1980s
4) Walkman, Landlines
5) Eleanor is the new kid with bright red her who no one wants to talk to, and Park is a kid who is finally getting ignored by the mean kids on the bus when they meet.
6) Park doesn't want to talk to Eleanor for fear of the kids on the bus being mean to him at school or at home, but she sat next to him.

1. The Great Gatsby
2. F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. New York City and Long Island 1922
4. Prohibition, rising stocks values, Roaring Twenties
5. Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, Nick Carraway
6. Gatsby has amassed a fortune in order to win Daisy's heart, but her husband and his past stand in the way.